This website uses JavaScript

Since our robot's last look at energy futures in November 2017, oil prices have shifted upwards. The short-term, forward look contains a lot of uncertainties given increasing geopolitical and other national policy issues and these will have long-erm effects too.

Do contact us to see how we can help you track future energy developments as they are announced or reported.

Sentiment analysis
Recent improvements in sentiment towards energy come from increasing annoucements on more use of wind and solar power in the U.S. and Europe, expectations of much more efficient batteries and energy storage systems including vehicle-to-grid are on the horizon.

Cloud
We are showing the cloud this week to bring home the point that our world relies on traditional energies with renewables not yet the dominant force and unlikely to be until well into the 21st century.

Radar
The top ten sectors most likely affected by changes in future energy policy and pricing will be manufacturing, food & agriculture, the environment, energy, government, retail, healthcare, construction, support services, aerospace and defense. But, the top three: manufacturing, food & agriculture, and the environment stand out as the key sectors likely to experience transformative change. All ten sectors are likely to continue looking for energy savings as global economic growth continues a low and possible, future recessionary path from 2019 onwards bringing the benefits of reduced resource use, less pollution, lower energy costs and distributed power.

Graph-It
Five years from now we are likely to see the better use of energy systems in smart cities, better batteries and states, particularly the US becoming increasingly energy independent as new technologies come on stream.

The U.S. and Australia are becoming independent of energy imports and will likely be major exports, while Russia continues to look for oil and gas export markets to sustain its sanction restrained economy. Iran will follow suit soon.
Continued geopolitical issues particularly affecting Venezuela, the Middle East and Western and Eastern Europe are likely to create continued volatility in energy prices in a very complex market.

Sectors
Energy is an expensive commodity for most organizations so its no surprise that most sectors have his as very high on their priorities.

Influencers
The chart below shows the key influencers Athena used to create this report. It's becoming increasingly noticeable across most topics we have recently covered that the EU is having considerable influence on regulatory matters: energy is no exception.

Sources
Athena used the sources below as the top ones to create this report and determined which embedded forecasts are included in this Trend Alert. She found 18,553 forecasts in seconds on the 24th May 2018 to allow us to publish this summary in less than an hour. She can turn these into PowerPoint slides and Audio files in minutes too as you wish, or we can prepare a full customized and professionally written brief for you to order covering all 18,553 forecasts.

​

Athena

Athena does show duplicates to aid your understanding of themes as well as contradictory forecasts. She may also show near-duplicates. You can speed read past the duplicates and near-duplicates if you wish, though the latter may show additional information. You can use the contradictory, and likely uncertain forecasts she finds to imagine different scenarios. The future is unpredictable, but we can examine the possibilities and choose our preferable future from the choices she presents.

Athena is apolitical. She will report forecasts from different viewpoints however distasteful that might be to our own values. Wearing rose-colored glasses is not her purpose; reporting potential futures is. So, we recommend you check her veracity before responding to her extracted forecasts.

Just like humans, Athena can be fallible. Do recognize that you and your associates are biased too. But whereas you tire, make mistakes and only recognize what interests you, she does not. She might miss or misinterpret as you do, but with far less frequency and she'll take uncomfortable truths and alternative ideas in her stride. But, please let us know if you feel her bias can be reduced. We want to do our best for you. And, as with any research, you should check and triangulate her findings for yourself.

Keep up to date: You can stay bang up to date on this topic or choose from our many automatic reports to determine what's next in seconds.

You can also ask us to set-up private topics for you (clients only) to achieve the same thing as this Trend Alert for your associates or set up Email subscriptions (Registration required) on your favorite subjects.